Natural gas outlook: Cheap and plentiful - Business - TheState.com

Associated Press, October 10, 2010

Natural gas, which had traded at about $2 per 1,000 cubic feet in the 1990s, hit nearly $15 in 2005. It is now about $3.50, driven lower by reduced industrial power demand and rising production by drillers who are learning to make a profit from shale gas at ever lower prices.